They first signed with M2 Company (the former name of the comedian production company HoriPro com). Since Kosaka didn’t have a partner to work with at the time, he ended up creating Sokonuke AIR-LINE in 1991 with two of his class members, Kojima and Murashima, who sat in the back of the class. My parents wouldn’t have allowed me to move here if I didn’t.” There were other similar places like Nichigei (Nihon University College of Art) or Anagaku (Tokyo Announce Gakuin Performing Arts College), but I chose to go to Japan Institute of the Moving Image when I came to Tokyo, because Ucchan Nanchan graduated from there. When I first came to Tokyo, they had finally made JCA (a training school for comedians established by JINRIKISHA, the first in the Kanto region), but until that, you really had no choice but to enter NSC in Osaka. Kosaka “In those days, saying you were going to move to Tokyo to become a comedian was the same as saying you were moving to Hollywood to become an actor. It seems though, however, that back then, the chances of someone from the country side like Aomori becoming a comedian, were slim to none. “I was positive that Kosaka would be able to make it as a comedian, but I thought that if we tried doing it together, I’d just drag him down,” he said. Nevertheless, something ate at Shiratori since their days back in their hometown of Aomori. Kosaka and Shiratori have been friends forever. He said he would wait three months, and I thought, “Alright” and made up my mind.” I didn’t know what to do at first because changing careers would have taken about three months. I went for an interview at the Italian Tomato, behind Shinjuku ALTA, and he told me he wanted me to come aboard right away. Shiratori “Kosaka didn’t have a manager at the time and he asked me if I would like to meet the president of his agency. Then, when he was 26, he got interested in my industry and decided to change careers.” He did that until he was like, “I can’t make any more change!” haha. He did repairs on those machines in banks, like those change machines, you know. I became a comedian and Teru got employed. When we turned eighteen we both moved to Tokyo. We went to the same elementary school too. Kosaka “Teru and I, I call him Teru, we’ve been together since kindergarten. Soon after arriving for the interview, the first words out of Kosaka’s mouth were, “It’s his thirteenth year in Avex!” introducing his old friend Shiratori while taking a look back on the good ol’ days.
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